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STATISTICS IN THE LIGHT OF PREPERATION OF A
PROPOSAL FOR A NEW POSTAL DIRECTIVERadenci 7
9 November 2005
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EU Postal Policy

• Establishing a regulatory framework.
• A universal service for all EU citizens.
• Implementing the internal postal market.
• Developement of Postal Policy
• 1997 Postal Directive 97/67/EC
• 2002 Postal Directive 2002/39/EC
• 2006 Legal monopoly will be reduce
• 2007 New Postal Directive
• 2009 Establishment of internal market in
  postal services

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Postal Statistics in EU

• Postal statistics were collected
• until 2003 EUROSTAT.
• 2003 2005 not collected.
• from 2005 Commission EU - EUROSTAT - CERP
• New statistical system
• Covering all relevant activities.
• Sufficiently harmonized among EU.
• Suited to monitor the regulatory evolutions of
  the
• postal market.
• Useful for all market players.

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Objectives and components for statistical policy
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Postal statistics in Republic of Slovenia
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Problems during collecting postal statistical data

• Legal basis for collecting data
• Question of confidentiality
• Definition of postal products and services

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Legal basis for collecting data

• Article 42 of Postal Services Act
• Everyone providing postal services shall be
  obliged to submit to the Agency, at its request,
  to the extent and/or including details, as it may
  require, data, information, financial and other
  reports which the Agency needs in order to fulfil
  its obligations and to report to international
  organisations in accordance with international
  acts valid in the Republic of Slovenia.

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Question of confidentiality

• Statistical Confidentiality is subject to
  national regulation.
• How to avoide confidentiality issues
• Secure Servers
• Tough access control
• No data sending by email but need to use a
  secure
• channel
• Eurostat not allowed to give confidential data
  to anybody,
• even the EU Commission
• Neither Eurostat nor NRAs are allowed to publish
  
• confidential data

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General scope of the statistical system
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Postal industry
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